Sen. James Inhofe, S. 2795: “The existing fleet of nuclear reactors in the United States is operating safely and securely.“

From Mining Awareness

April 29, 2016

It is perfectly possible that Inhofe, Booker, Crapo et. al. are simply lazy, stupid and ignorant in pushing a bill (S. 2795) claiming that US nuclear reactors are “operating safely and securely”. Maybe they’ve just observed that the US NRC does exactly what the nuclear industry wants anyway so should indeed have funding cut. It is actually pretty funny that all the workers at US NRC that have sold their soul to the nuclear devil have their jobs on the cutting block anyway. So, the proposal to cut funding to the US NRC is actually pretty funny. Watch and learn before you sell your soul to the devil. However, many NRC workers will just go home to their countries of origin, leaving the children of the American Revolution and others who have no other home stuck with their nuclear crimes. But, why not just totally shut down the US NRC?

The electrical defects for all but one US nuclear power station are so serious that 7 brave NRC electrical engineers put themselves at risk by demanding something be done immediately. They were ignored. These brave seven were led by an American from India who loves America. And, maybe he’s just smart enough to understand that the world environment is interconnected too.

This claim about the safety and security of US Nuclear Power Stations and push for nuclear deregulation is oddly coming from a Senator (Inhofe) from Oklahoma where there are no operating nuclear power stations, though Oklahoma is the location of the infamous Kerr-McGee site where Karen Silkwood worked.

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Maybe Inhofe wants to do injection wells for radioactive waste in Oklahoma? Maybe he loves those injection induced earthquakes?

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If Christina Back-General Atomics have a safe product then why are they apparently afraid of mandatory public hearings?

Just looking at Senator Inhofe makes one want to duck and cover. Is he what Brother Malcolm had in mind when he talked about the blue-eyed devil? However, can one remain in a nuclear bunker forever? Where to get clean air, food and water? Maybe the super rich can afford to make an underground biosphere, but most people can’t. And, animals cannot.

Senator Markey pointed out at the Senate hearing on this insane bill:
“So, laced throughout the bill as it is drafted is an assumption that there are inherent safety features built into Advanced design for reactors that make it safer automatically… Are these new technologies actually inherently safer? We have to have the capacity to be able to determine that. Will the public be able to ask questions?

The industry’s has always tried to get the public out. But after Three Mile Island, after Chernobyl and after any other number of other incidents, the people don’t trust the experts anymore. They want to be able to ask questions too. Because these power plants are going into their neighborhoods. You can’t wall out whole areas of the country from these questions…

From my perspective, public input is vital and should actually be strengthened.The new reactors should not be exempted from important safety requirements that historically have been required. And, that the NRC budget should not be capped…

We know one thing. These power plants are now 20, 30, 40 years old and to say that you need less health inspection – You’ve gotta go to the doctor more the older you get. There are more things that can go wrong the older you get. And, to reduce the budget of these aging power plants in densely populated areas all across the country, and say at the same time we’re gonna have lower numbers of personnel, lower amount of fees and revenues that are going in. It runs totally contrary to how we think about it. There are issues like embrittlement in nuclear power plants… they cause issues that require a lot of additional attention…”http://www.c-span.org/video/?408515-1/hearing-nuclear-energy&start=5937

This tie-in between cancer centers and the nuclear industry appears a conflict of interest. A smoking pathologist once said in a light-hearted manner that they needed to promote smoking for it was good for their business. Certainly nuclear failures and general discharge of radioactive materials to the environment, with or without accidents, increase business for cancer centers.

Who is the jerk Carper who made a smart-alec comment about Senator Markey getting an extra 3 minutes? Carper’s gotten major funding related to Dupont with long-standing ties to the nuclear industry. And, Akin Gump law firm which advises the nuclear industry. However, deregulation would seemingly be bad for their business. So, maybe he’s just a jerk pure and simple. Much of his funding is related to big banks and big pharma.https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?type=I&cid=N00012508&newMem=N&recs=20&cycle=2016

“The Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility, a uranium conversion facility, is located 3 km northwest of Metropolis, Illinois. The plant, Honeywell Specialty Chemicals in Metropolis, Illinois, has a nominal capacity of 15,000 tU as uranium hexafluoride per year. ConverDyn, a general partnership between affiliates of Honeywell and General Atomics, is the exclusive agent for conversion sales from the Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_Uranium_Hexafluoride_Processing_Facility

There are probably more nuclear ties in all of this if you study the companies listed on OpenSecrets in detail, but we’ve no time to investigate. WHY ARE PEOPLE ELECTING THESE EVIL JOKERS? IT’S HARD TO GET A GOOD US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BUT IT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE TO PUT IN GOOD, INDEPENDENT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WITH SOME EFFORT.

The Despicable Pro-nuclear Panel

1. Christina Back General Atomics->Nuclear Technologies and Materials Division

2. Nuclear pusher masquerading as an advocate of clean air even though her history is of pushing nuclear for tar sands: Ashley Finan Senior Manager “Clean Air Task Force->Energy Innovation Project ”

3. Maria Korsnick Chief Operating Officer Nuclear Energy Institute

4. Edwin Lyman Senior Scientist Union of Concerned Scientists->Global Security Program claims to be for nuclear but safe nuclear, even though that’s an impossibility. Safer is still better than unsafe.

5. Victor McCree Executive Director, Nuclear Regulatory Commission-
>Operations, getting his after having sounded like a jerk to a whistle blower and others in a TVA public hearing.

Ashley Finan’s group the so-called clean air task force is a nuclear pusher. She has a particularly despicable background. She came out of MIT’s nuclear “school” (apparently bad excuse for one). Her background includes working for Stone and Webster-Shaw from May 2006-Jan. 2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_%26_Webster Her work there as well as her MIT research assistantship dealt with use of CANDU or HTGR for Canadian oil sands! Not a joke. How clean air is that? Not!

Journalist Greg Palast explains that as he watched the Fukushima meltdown, he “knew: the “SQ” had been faked. Anderson Cooper said it would all be OK. He’d flown to Japan, to suck up the radiation and official company bullshit. The horror show was not the fault of Tokyo Electric, he said, because the plant was built to withstand only an 8.0 earthquake on the Richter scale, and this was 9.0. Anderson must have been in the gym when they handed out the facts. The 9.0 shake was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 90 miles away. It was barely a tenth of that power at Fukushima. I was ready to vomit. Because I knew who had designed the plant, who had built it and whom Tokyo Electric Power was having rebuild it: Shaw Construction. The latest alias of Stone & Webster, the designated builder for every one of the four new nuclear plants that the Obama Administration has approved for billions in federal studies.” See more at:http://www.gregpalast.com/completely-and-utterly-fail-in-an-earthquake/ (And, buy the entire Book “Vulture’s Picnic”. Areva Shaw is also the builder of the MOX flop which is reportedly defective, late with costs overrun, and a dangerous idea in the first place.